Form of printing checks.



E. M. SMITH.

FORM OF PRINTING CHECKS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR-20, I916.

LQB QWI Patented Nov. 5, 1918.

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KANSASOITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOJB, OF ONE-HALF TO BETTIE YVADDELL SMITH, OF KANSAS CITY,

MISEOURI.

FORM OF PRINTING CHECKS Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 20, 1916. Serial No. 85,327.

To (ZZZ whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, EDWARD MAYBERRY SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Forms of Printin Checks, of which the following isa full, c ear, and exact descriptlon, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and'use the same.

The invention relates to printed forms for negotiable instruments and more particularly to an improved form of bank check.

Bank checks are usually so printed that the issue number, date, payees name and amount must be filled in, each on a separate line, thus consuming considerable time in filling in the required data by a penman to com lete the check ready for signature, and resu ting in still further loss of time as well as great difliculty where the check is filled in by the usual typewritin machine.

It is essential that chec {S be so printed that the completing data can be filled in with less loss of time and with less inconvenience by the typewriting machine.

The present invention seeks to provide an improved form of negotiable instrument for bank checks, and the like and with the printed matter so arrangedthereon that the issue number, date, payees-name and number of cents must be written on a single line so as to save time in writing the issue number, date, payees name and cents when executed by a penman and so that these items can be written rapidly and conveniently by the ordinary typewriting machine.

A further advantage of the invention is to print the amount of the check in dollars, both in alphabetical letters and numerals, and a notation following the amount reading, Plus number of cents written above.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the features of arrangement, location and form of printinpa negotiable instrument that is particu arly advantageously employed as a bank check, as hereinafter set forth, illustrated in the ac companying drawing and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

The drawing is a face view of a bank check illustrating the application of the invention.

The body 17 is of any suitable material and is provided with the longitudinal lines .1, 2, 3, 4: and 5, the alphabetical letters 6 being arranged between the lines 4 and 5 an representing the number of dollars the check can be drawn to represent and the amount in dollars for which the check is payable when otherwise filled in and completed, the drawing representing a check printed for twenty-one dollars, it being understood that the number of cents are written as hereinafter set forth, and that the checks are printed for any desired number of dollars as well as for no dollars, the latter be ing payable in cents only.

Following the alphabetical letters 6 and also between the lines 4; and 5 are the alphabetical letters 7, which read Plus number of cents written above the blank space 8 between the lines 2 and 3 being provided for the writing of the number ofcents and also being located in alinement with the space for writing the balance of the filled in data as will hereinafter appear.

Between the lines 1 and 2 are the notations 9, l0 and 11, which read Number, Date of issue, and Pay to the order of, while immediately below these notations between the lines 2 and 3 are the blank spaces 12, 13 and 14 respectively for writing respectively the number of the check, the date of issue, and the payees name, these blank spaces be ing in alinement, and also in alinement with the blank space 8 in which the number of cents is always written.

Above the line 1 may be printed the name of the city in which the bank upon which the check is drawn is located, the name Kansas City, Mo. being shown in the drawing as an example. The balance of the face of the check above the line 1 may also be employed for printing the name and ad vertisement of the bank upon which the check is drawn, or as an advertisement of the individual, firm, corporation, municipality or government issuing the check.

When the name of the bank upon which the check is drawn does not appear above the line 1 it may be printed, written or stamped on the blank space 15, while the blank space 16 is reserved for the signature son signing and completing the check.

The improved check form can be inserted in the usual typewriting machine and the line 3 alined with the lower edge of the type of the machine, and the check written ready of the perfor signature without shifting the form in the machine thus dispensing with the usual method of alining four or five lines of the form with the type as is necessary with the usual form of bank check, and saving a considerable amount of time and annoyance in writing checks, as in many typewriting machines it is diflicult to aline any line of a form with the type of the machine.

In filling in checks with the pen a considerable saving of time will result from placing the number of the check, the date of issue, the payees name and the number of cents in a single line, the printing of the number of dollars on the check being especially advantageous in issuing pay checks, it being customary to issue large numbers of checks each payable for the same number of dollars, it being obvious that any individual, firm, corporation, municipality or government may easily be supplied with blank check forms of the denomination in which checks are issued, and that any sum or amount may be represented by a plurality of checks issued in a graduated series so that "blank r'orms' of a few denominations may be employed to represent any sum.

The improved lolank form of negotiable instrument is of chief importance as a bank Copies of this patent may be obtained for five number, the

by Letters Patent, is

1. A negotiable instrument, lines and data arranged on said instrument to indicate the position of writing the date of issue, the payees name and the number of ents, representing a part of a dollar for which said instrument is payable, on a single line.

A. negotiable instrument, the amount in dollars printed along the major portion of the length of said check, a reference referring to cents printed along the remaining 1 portion of the length of said check and lines and data arranged on said instrument above said amount whereby the date or issue, the number, the payees name and the number of cents representing a part of a dollar for which said instrument is payable may be written on a single line.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

EDYVARD MAYBERRY SMITH. Witnesses:

Bn'r'rm WVADDELL SMITH, MAUDE L. RUTHRAUFF.

cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Eatents,

Washington, D. 0."

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